Abstract This article suggests a new perspective on the old problem of protecting ships at sea, for two reasons. First, although screen tactics and other…
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Abstract Today’s hearing will cover China’s maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas. We’ll examine the security, political, legal, and economic drivers of…
Abstract The post–Cold War interlude during which U.S. maritime access to and within overseas regions of grand strategic importance faced few challenges was a historical…
Summary The Next Great War? combines reinterpretations of history, applications of international relations theory, and discussions of the lessons that the outbreak of war in 1914…
Summary Ahmed Rashid, one of the world’s leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on…
Abstract This paper engages the ongoing soft balancing debate by suggesting a new analytical framework for states’ countervailing strategies—a negative balancing model—to explain why states…
Abstract Even if the immediate Korean crisis eases, the underlying problem of a crippled but dangerous North Korean state will remain. The state, as we…
Abstract American national security policy is based on a misunderstanding about U.S. oil interests. Although oil is a vital commodity, potential supply disruptions are less…
Abstract Plentiful spare capacity persists in the oil production and tanker industries, contrary to Michael Levi’s contention in his response to our earlier article, “Protecting…
Abstract Crisis management is the most demanding form of diplomacy. So far neither Russia nor the US and its European allies have handled it particularly…
Abstract On some issues, particularly Iran, the fallout has been negligible, yet there is still reason for concern. The gravest dangers are the devaluing of…
Abstract One thing that is clear about the interim nuclear deal with Iran, reached on 24 November in Geneva, is that much of the world…
Abstract Regime change is not an immediate answer to the current challenges posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK). But North Korea’s…
Abstract Now that Tehran knows who will occupy the White House for the next four years, talks may soon resume in earnest. But Iranian eagerness…
Abstract The American ability to think clearly about strategy did not survive the Cold War. As a result, the US worries more, and spends more,…
